Ruben Sargsyan

Ruben Sargsyan
Ռուբեն Սարգսյան
Ruben SargsyanՌուբեն Սարգսյան
	Ruben Sargsyan, Yerevan, Armenia, 2008
Background information
Born	November 22, 1945; Yerevan, Armenia
Died	April 6, 2013 (aged 67); Yerevan, Armenia
Genres	Classical
Occupation	Composer

Ruben Sargsyan, also seen as Sarkisyan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Սարգսյան; November 22, 1945 – April 6, 2013^[1]), was an Armenian composer, laureate of the State Award of Armenia, professor of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory.

Biography

Ruben Sargsyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, in the family of scientist agronome Suren Sargsyan. He first began to study at the Sayat-Nova Music School, then continued his education at the Romanos Melikian Music College. At the second year of college education he has been recommended and transferred to the music composition class of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, where he studied with professor Ghazaros Saryan. He graduated from the Conservatory in 1972 and became a member of the Composers' Union. In 1973-1985 Ruben Sargsyan has been teaching Music Theory and Solfege at the Yerevan Music School No.10. In 1987-2013 he has taught Music Composition and Modern Composition Technology at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. In 2004 became a Professor of Music. In 1994 Ruben Sargsyan, along with other modern Armenian composers and musicologists, established the Armenian Musical Assembly, non-governmental, non-for-profit organization, intended to promote and support modern Armenian Music worldwide.

Awards

2007 - received the State Award of Armenia for his orchestral cycle My coeval.
1993 - became a laureate of the national competition The Best Symphonic Composition for his Symphonic Poem.
1978 - received the Best Composition of the Year national award for his Cello Concerto No.1

Selected compositions

Rock-ballet The Invisible Man, libretto based on Herbert Wells novel, 2000
Symphony No.1 for symphonic orchestra on YouTube, 1986 (Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2012)
Symphony No.2, Ironica, for symphonic orchestra, 1989 (Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2010)
Symphony No.3, The Chronicle, for symphonic orchestra (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2005)
Symphony In modo passacaglia for chamber orchestra, 1984
Concerto No.1 for Violin and Chamber orchestra, 1983 (published, Sovetakan Grogh publishing, Yerevan, 1989)
Concerto No.2 for Violin and Chamber orchestra, 1984 (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2009)
Concerto No.3 for Violin and Chamber orchestra, 1989
Concerto No.4 for Violin and Chamber orchestra, 2001 (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2003)
Concerto No.1 for Cello and Symphonic orchestra, 1977
Concerto No.2 for Cello and Chamber orchestra, 1979
Concerto No.3 for Cello and Chamber orchestra, 1989
Concerto No.4 for Cello and Chamber orchestra, 1994
Concerto for Viola and Chamber orchestra, 1992
Cogitation for cello and chamber orchestra on YouTube(in memory of Gh. Saryan), 2000. (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2001)
In memory for Chamber orchestra, celesta and percussion (in memory of Avet Terteryan), 1996 (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2001)
Concertino for String orchestra, 1996 (published, Komitas publishing, Yerevan, 2001)
Elegy for flute and string ensemble, 1998
Junior concerto for piano and string orchestra, 1983
String Quartet, 1982, Sovetakan Grogh publishing, 1983
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, 1984, Komitas publishing, 2002
Sonata for Flute and Piano, 2001
Sonata for Cello and Piano on YouTube, 1977, Soviet Composer publishing, 1980
Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, 1976, Sovetakan Grogh publishingb, 1982
Sonata No.2 for Violin and Piano on YouTube, 1978, Soviet Composer publishing, 1984
Piano sonata, 1980, Sovetakan Grogh publishingb, 1982
Armenian graphics 5 pieces for piano solo, 1975, Sovetakan Grogh publishingb, 1982
Cercio declamando for cello solo, 2001, Komitas publishing, 2006
Nerses Shnorhali poem for flute, piano and reciter, 1975
A gift to Komitas 7 pieces for piano solo, 1987, Komitas publishing, 2002
Piano Sonatina No.1, 1968, Sovetakan Grogh publishing, 1985
Piano Sonatina No.2, 1980
Piano Sonatina No.3, 1981
Piano Sonatina No.4, 1987, Komitas publishing, 2000
Album for the Young for Piano solo, 1983, Komitas publishing, 2000
Requiem for September for Chamber orchestra, dedicated to the victims of 9/11, 2003
My coeval cycle for Chamber orchestra (1. Deir ez-Zor survivor's confession on YouTube, 2. All that remains, 3. Return to its circuit on YouTube, 4. Mass for the ghost), 2005–2006, Komitas publishing, 2006, Amrots Group publishing, 2011
Call the Spring for Flute, Glockenspiel and chamber ensemble, 2007-2009
Mozart's will for flute, oboe, clarinet in B, fagot, trumpet in B, trombone, timpani and chamber ensemble, 2008
Black ball for flute, glockenspiel and chamber ensemble, 2007-2009
Farewell for piano and chamber ensemble on YouTube, in memory of musicologist Irina Tigranova, 2011
Rhapsody for piano and chamber orchestra on YouTube, 2011
The death of the Legend for Piano solo, 2012
String Quartet, in memory of composer Edvard Mirzoyan, 2012

References

^ Ruben Sargsyan's biography

Feist, Thomas. “Glänzende Interpretation zejtgenössischer Musik. Armenisches Ensemble im Schauspielhaus gefeiert”. – “Neues Deutschland”. 25 Februar 1987.
Rukhkyan, M.A. - Portraits of the Armenian composers - Nairi publishing house, Yerevan, 2009, pp. 154–198
Berko, M. - Hard but happy ways of cognition - Soviet music publishing house, 1978, No.4, pp. 14–17
Meyer, K. - Armenian musical culture - Armenia today, 1980, No.2, p. 33
Korikhalova, N. P. - Visiting leningradians - The voice of Armenia, January 4, 1991

Links

[1] Ruben Sargsyan's biography

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